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The Association for Asian Studies annual conference draws thousands of scholars for multiple days of dynamic sessions, events, and a lively book exhibition. This year, the University of Washington Press is excited to welcome AAS 2024 to Seattle from March 14 to 17.

If you’re attending in person, visit us at booth 806 to browse selected and award-winning books in Asian studies, Asian art and art history, and more. Our virtual exhibit is open now, featuring a similarly wide array of new and notable books. AAS members can use code WAAS24 at checkout for a 30% discount and free shipping on all orders placed on our website through April 19, 2024.

Award-Winning Books in Asian Studies

We are thrilled to share that Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 James B. Palais Prize for English-language scholarly books published on Korea.

Congratulations to author Maya K. H. Stiller and all the honorees in this year’s prize competition.

“Stiller’s work provides a wealth of valuable insights into the history of social status, travel, and cultural production in mid- to late Chosŏn Dynasty Korea.”
—Asian Studies Review

AAS 2024 Events

Meet the Contributors: China’s Hidden Century
Friday, March 15, 1:00–2:00 pm at the UW Press Booth (806)

Stop by the UW Press booth to meet Anne Gerritsen, Steve Platt, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, and Chia-ling Yang, contributors of China’s Hidden Century. Copublished with the British Museum in conjunction with the critically acclaimed exhibition of the same name, this lavishly illustrated catalog is the first genre-spanning study of how Chinese cultural creativity flourished during the long final century of the Qing empire.

“The exhibition catalog’s seven essays . . . are a guide to this re-reading of the past, threading the relics on display into a rich tapestry of what life entailed under the last century of Manchu reign.”
—Mekong Review

University of Washington Asian Studies Reception
Friday, March 15, 7:30–9:30 pm in Room Willow B, Sheraton Grand Seattle

Join the University of Washington Asian studies community for a reception. Light appetizers will be served, and beverage tickets will be issued to the first 100 attendees (one per person) and may be used for cocktails, beer, wine, or soft drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase.

7:30 pm | Doors open
7:50 pm | Welcome from Danny Hoffman, Director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
8:00 pm | UW Press tribute to Lorri Hagman
9:30 pm | Doors close

Hosted by the UW Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, China Studies Program, UW Japan Studies Program, Center for Korea Studies, Taiwan Studies Program, East Asia Resource Center, UW Press, Tateuchi East Asia Library, Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas, East Asia Center, and South Asia Center.

Introducing the ‘Taiwan and the World’ Series

UW Press is proud to introduce our newest series in Asian studies, Taiwan and the World.

“The dynamic, emerging, and interdisciplinary field of Taiwan studies is in need of scholarly, book-length inquiries into themes germane to Taiwan’s history and society,” says series coeditor James Lin. “Among these are the island’s consecutive colonizations, rapid economic growth, maturing democracy, evolving national identity, race and ethnicity, indigenous peoples, social and cultural change, and contested international position in the shadow of a rising China. This new series will highlight these themes and more, as they affect interactions between Taiwan and the larger world.”

The first release in the series, Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History by Niki J. P. Alsford, is now available and will be followed by the publication of Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule by Fang Yu Hu in September.

We welcome innovative works that will advance the teaching of Taiwan studies, inform policy discussions, and interest general readers. Inquiries and proposals can be directed to acquisitions editor Caitlin Tyler-Richards at ctylerri@uw.edu.

Meet UW Press’s History Editors

Three of the press’s acquisitions editors acquire in the field of the history of the US West, and each one has a particular specialty.

Mike Baccam (he/him) acquires in western history, critical ethnic studies, and Asian American studies. He is interested in projects that engage with race, gender, migration, imperialism, and labor and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary work. He accepts queries for the Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History. He can be reached by email at mbaccam@uw.edu or on Twitter at @mikebaccam.

Andrew Berzanskis (he/him) acquires environmental history, geography, and books for general readers about the Pacific Northwest. Pitch him via email at andrewlb@uw.edu and find him on Twitter at @ABerzanskis. He also accepts proposals for our Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series.

Larin McLaughlin (she/her) acquires in Native and Indigenous studies, women’s history, gender, and sexuality studies, and visual culture. She welcomes queries for the Indigenous Confluences series. lmclaugh@uw.edu.

We encourage you to reach out to the editor whose emphasis best reflects the focus of your work. And please visit the WHA virtual conference and stop by our virtual booth to learn more about new releases in western history, view series flyers, and access other information.

2020 WHA Award Winners

We are excited to share the news that two of our recent books have received awards from the Western History Association this year:

Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract by Philip J. Deloria has been selected for the 2020 Donald L. Fixico Award for best book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations history that centers on Indigenous epistemologies and perspectives.

Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed by Alexandra Harmon has been selected for the 2020 Robert G. Athearn Award for best book on the twentieth-century American West.